The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-04-08

there is not fashionable saloon within
mile OF their homes that the boys are
not familiar with. They think their
children never do unyirtuous things :;
and yet they reek with unvirtue.
There are many young men who, when
they return to their fathers houses, are
supposed to have been making visits
to this or that person. It is mere
guise.
The practice of allowing children to
60 out at night to find their own com.
panions and their own places of amuse-
| ment may leave one in twenty unscath-
ed and without danger; but I think
that nineteen out of twenty fall down
wounded or destroyed. And if there
is one thing that should be more i'm
perative than another, it is that your
children shall be at home at night: or
| that, if they are abroad. you shall be
abroad with them. There may be
things that it is best that you should
do for your children, though you would
not do them for yourselves; but they
ought not to go anywhere at night, to
see sights, or to take pleasure. unless
you can go with them, until they are
grown to mans estate and their habits
are formed. And nothing is more GER
| tain than that to grant the child liberty
to go outside of the parental roof and
its restraints in the darkness of night
Is bad, and only bad, and that continu-
ally.
Do not suppose that a child is hurt
only when he is broken down. / have
quite a taste in china cups and such
things. l like beautiful cup. ard |
have noticed that when the handle gets
knocked off from cup of mine that
cup is spoiled for me. When I look at
it afterwards I never see the beauty.
but always see the broken handle. If
have beautiful mirror and it is
cracked, it may still answer all the pur-
poses that want a mirror for, to re-
veal my beauty, but nevertheless it is
spoiled for my eye. There is that
crack, and when look into the glass |
never see myself half so much as 1 see
the crack. Its perfection is gone. In
the matter of beauty. speck or blem-
ish is more than all besides, and takes
away the pleasure of all besides. And
it does not require that child should
be broken down to be made useless by
his exposures to temptation. / aver
that there are many things which no
man can learn without being damaged
by them all his life long. There are
many thoughts which ought never to
find a passage through mans brain.
AS an eel, if he were to wriggle across
your carpet, would leave slime which
no brush could take off, so there are
many things which no person can know
and ever recover from the knowledge
of.
There are the minions of Satan that
go around with hidden pictures and
books under the lapels Of their coats,
showing them to the young, with glaz-
ing, lustful, hideous. internal scenes
represented, which once to have seen
is to remember.
I can say these things when some
others could not, because / am known,
and want to be known, as a friend of
liberty and friend of pleasure. I re-
buke the young who would turn monks.
/ do not believe in solitude. I do not
believe in melancholy. / believe in
gayety and joyousness. And I do be-
lieve that the closer man keeps to the
laws of nature the happier he will be,
and ought to be. Therefore, being on
the side of liberty, though not OH the
side Of license-being on the side Of
wholesome, manly pleasures, and free
dom in the indulgence of them-I have
authority to say, when you pervert ma
ture in this way it is utterly wicked
and utterly abominable.
There is another application which,
although partial, is of great range and
Of supreme Importance, addressing it..
self to doctors, to guardians, and to par
ents, chiefly. | refer to the practice of
allowing children to 60 out at night in
to the streets, if in cities; Or, if in the
country, allowing children in to find
their companions at night, and their
pleasures at night, away from parental
inspection. If / wanted to make the
destruction of a child sure, I would
give3him unmatched liberty after dark.
You cannot do a thing that will be so
nearly a guarantee of chiid's dam
nation as to let him have the liberty
OF the streets at night. 1 do not be-
lieve in bringing up the young to know
life, as it is said. I should just as soon
think of bringing up a child by cutting
some Of the cords OF his body and lac
Grating his nerves and soaring and
tatooing him and making an Indian of
him outright as an element Of beauty,
as should think of developing his
manhood by bringing him up. to see
life-to'see its abominable lusts, to see
| its hideous incarnations of wit, to see
its Internal wickedness, to see.. its ex-
travagant and degrading scenes, to see
its miserable carnalities, to see its i'm
aginations set on fire of hell, to see all
those temptations and decisions which
lead to perdition. Nobody gets over
the sight of these things. They who
see them always carry scars. They are
burned. And though they live, they
live as men that have been burned.
The scar remains. And to let the
young go out where the CLAIM, !, &C urte-
san appears, to let them 60 where the
lustful frequenter of dens of inquiry
can come within their reach, to let
them 60 where the young gather to-
gether to cheer with bad wit, to go
where they will be exposed to such
temptations-why, parent is insane
that will do it. To say "a child must
De hardened, he has got to get tough
somehow, and you may as well put
him in the vat and let him tam
that family education? Is that Chris
.ian nurture9 Is that bringing child
In the nurture and admonition of the
Lord? I thank God for two things
yes, for thousand: but for two among
many: First, that was born and bred
in the country, of parents that gave me
a sound constitution and noble ex.
ample. I never can pay back what l
got from my parents. If were to
raise q monument of gold higher than
Heaven it would be no expression of
the debt of gratitude which 1 owe to
them, for that which they increasingly
gave, by the heritage of their body and
the heritage of their souls, to me. And